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Show Queen Contest To Highlight V Days' "U Days" will not have as much pageantry this year as opposed to previous years, "because of over-expenditures over-expenditures in the school budget up to this point," commented U Days Committee chairman David Kent, Tuesday. Kent went on to emphasize, however, that the queen contest should still be of some importance. im-portance. "We're putting as much emphasis on choosing and presenting present-ing the queen this year with our $1,600 budget as we did last year with our $3,500 worth of funds." Preliminary applications for the , contest, which may be entered "by any department or organization on campus," must be filed by April 16 to be eligible, according to Kent. On April 18, a preliminary contest will be held in the Little Theatre in which each contestant will go through swim suit, evening gown and talent competition. "The preliminary pre-liminary session will be closed," stated Kent, "because we don't want to put too much strain on the girls. After a while, most of them tend to shape up, but usually at first, they quiver a bft." Preliminaries TougYi j "The toughest part of the com-petition com-petition for me was the prelimii&ry duty," said last year's U dsyst queen Carol Hall. "When la first put up by my sorority, IM want to go through with it. I to afraid of being seen in a baftimg suit. But after the initial shock, everything turned put alright." Five judges yet to be chosen will preside over all competition. The basic requirements for entry will be talent, looks, and poise. Each contestant is also required to have a 2.0 grade point average. "We set this up so the freshmen won't be chopped out," said Kent. No girl who has been married and divorced can be considered eligible. Ten Finalists Chosen From the preliminary contest, 10 finalists will be chosen, and the queen will be picked on April 29 in an open ceremony. She will be presented to the studentbody May 3, at the songfest, which will conclude con-clude U Days activities. The U Days queen will then represent the j University at the Miss Utah for i Miss America pageant. "The P for Miss Utah is $1,000 and for Mis America, $10,000, so this is m each girl will be shooting for," , Kent. j This year's U Day's activities will include an activities day and white wash day, in addition Queen activities and the songft The Stone Poney's will provide tn music for the songfest, which Ken described as being "neither a stomp or a formal dance." |